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The Xkcd thing, now interactive

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs
205•memalign•2h ago•23 comments

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-e...
1194•sandbach•14h ago•676 comments

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-cortex-x925-reaching-desktop
140•ingve•5h ago•66 comments

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c178zzw780xo
13•tchalla•46m ago•1 comments

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
904•ireflect•16h ago•445 comments

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

https://windowsread.me/p/windhawk-explained
46•wild_pointer•2h ago•44 comments

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
368•danso•11h ago•219 comments

C64: Putting Sprite Multiplexing to Work

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/c64-putting-sprite-multiplexing-to-work/
22•ibobev•1d ago•0 comments

We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

https://blog.replit.com/browsers-dont-want-to-be-cameras
70•darshkpatel•2d ago•33 comments

Simple screw counter

https://mitxela.com/projects/screwcounter
178•jk_tech•2d ago•44 comments

Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/pornography-sexual-relationships-step-relatives-5HjdTkd_2/
13•GaryBluto•15m ago•4 comments

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

https://www.ntik.me/posts/voice-agent
464•nicktikhonov•15h ago•134 comments

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhznrpgl7k
44•vanyauhalin•50m ago•16 comments

How to sew a Hyperbolic Blanket (2021)

https://www.geometrygames.org/HyperbolicBlanket/index.html
11•aebtebeten•2d ago•1 comments

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymous-credentials-an-illustrated-primer/
43•FrasiertheLion•4h ago•14 comments

DOS Memory Management

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos-memory-management/
68•ingve•2d ago•21 comments

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/first-ever-in-utero-stem-cell-therapy-for-fetal-spina-b...
317•gmays•22h ago•60 comments

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/24
139•tzury•13h ago•26 comments

New iPad Air, powered by M4

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-ipad-air-powered-by-m4/
416•Garbage•22h ago•646 comments

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/pint-sized-macintosh-pico-micro-mac/
49•ingve•5h ago•13 comments

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/buckle-up-for-bumpier-skies
53•littlexsparkee•7h ago•27 comments

Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev)

https://gvanrossum.github.io/interviews/Thomas.html
62•azhenley•1d ago•3 comments

Guilty Displeasures

https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/what-are-your-guilty-displeasures
89•aregue•2d ago•92 comments

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
2230•km•1d ago•816 comments

Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming

102•rohxnsxngh•20h ago•36 comments

iPhone 17e

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/
297•meetpateltech•22h ago•435 comments

China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/china-cr450-world-s-fastest-bullet-train
34•teleforce•2h ago•30 comments

Plugtest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugtest
19•dhorthy•2d ago•4 comments

Seed of Might Color Correction Process (2023) [pdf]

https://andrewvanner.github.io/som/SoM_CC_Process_Day.pdf
93•haunter•14h ago•23 comments

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

https://maderix.substack.com/p/inside-the-m4-apple-neural-engine
353•zdw•1d ago•104 comments
Open in hackernews

AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk28nj0lrjo
59•stellastah•4h ago

Comments

lyu07282•1h ago
More recent news: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-data-centers-middle-e...

> Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third facility in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike "in close proximity,"

Also to add context: AWS has contracts with the US military: "The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract enables AWS to continue providing Department of Defense (DoD) customers with secure, reliable, and mission-critical cloud services." https://aws.amazon.com/federal/defense/jwcc/ Making them a target for retaliation ofc.

WJW•1h ago
Amazon is an extremely visible American company, hitting their assets carries a symbolic meaning even if the DoD wouldn't have anything running on that datacentre at all. Iran's trying to transmit a message of "we can destroy your stuff too", trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability.

I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.

randunel•1h ago
> trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability

Or, perhaps, trying to defend themselves? They are being attacked, after all.

tzahifadida•1h ago
Defend themselves? LOL... Keep dreaming. Maybe they are continuing being delusional they can threaten a superpower without repercussions... I suggest getting a shrink working on that...
orwin•46m ago
They can make it very expensive though. And they can't negotiate, given it's the second time they are attacked during negotiations, so really, what can they do? Cause the most chaos possible around them, strain the relationships between the US and other ME countries, force the US to make a choice about which ally to protect (it will be Saudi Arabia), make the oil price go up and deplete US weapon stocks. If the force the US and Israel to put boots on the ground, they will have won.
tzahifadida•39m ago
In WW-II, the US bombed the hell out of German forces for months on end. That is what people do not understand. The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely. There will be no boots on the ground for soldiers (they wish). They will just get pulverised as time goes by. If the US and Israel will think they cannot get to their thick skull they'll simply bomb the oil refineries and let the Iranian regime deal with paychecks from their street goons and fanatics who will eat them alive.
bayindirh•24m ago
> The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely.

The same US which had to re-build and re-open factories to be able to support Ukraine, and had an important shortage of shells for some time?

The same US talking with their allies to build ships for them?

US generals said that their defensive munition is not infinite. Middle Eastern countries said that they have Patriot stockpiles for 4 days.

We're past WWII. Nobody has that capacity anymore. Some of the tech and factories built these gigantic battle cruisers are not present anymore even.

US may, and can pulverize Iran if they want, but it'll be much more expensive than WWII era, because of how interconnected the world is now, and this is how post-WWII world has been designated. Make everyone depend on everyone, and make war very expensive as a result.

nixon_why69•6m ago
Its not bombs that are running out, its interceptors. The 12 day war exhausted 25% of american stocks, we're on day 3 of this round, do the math.

What happens to Israel when the interceptors run out and they're on equal standing with Iranian or Palestinian civilians?

nixon_why69•1h ago
It's both, this particular counter-attack is aimed at morale rather than specifically a base launching sorties against them.

Ultimately, this war ends when America loses the political will to continue, so morale is a strategic objective for them.

dotancohen•1h ago
That's why they've been hitting residential buildings and hotels as well? They assume that because their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah) hide in civilian structures, so does the US army?

All these attempts to justify Iranian terror demonstrate just how deep Qatari influence online has been. And even Qatar is being attacked by Iran now.

kasey_junk•1h ago
Is Hezbollah hiding in the elementary school that got bombed? Perhaps that’s where the Iranian nuclear research was done?

We attacked them. Full stop. And as far as I can tell we haven’t given them any conditions for when we will stop bombing them. In what moral framework do you have to just accept another sovereign, a vastly more powerful one, invading your country without fighting back?

ta20240528•1h ago
I can't guess what the USA wants other than a distraction from the raping-of- children saga, but I bet Israel would settle for "we acknowledge your right to exist and won't fund or encourage organisations that plan to harm you."

If Saudi Arabia can get there…

kasey_junk•54m ago
The world has seen what Israel does when they’re attacked. They don’t get to set moral frameworks anymore.
ta20240528•27m ago
Agreed. But that wasn't the OP's question.
cced•51m ago
> We attacked them

During negotiations, for the second time.

atsaloli•43m ago
The primary condition is giving up nuclear ambitions.
LAC-Tech•36m ago
It is too late, Israel already has nuclear weapons.
LAC-Tech•1h ago
I genuinetely do not think Hasbara like this works anymore. The overton window on this has irrevocably shifted since 2023 and it would be a better strategy for you to live within this new reality, rather than making ludicrous claims that the middle eastern country most vehemently trying to shape western views on the region is... Qatar. It just comes across as an obvious projection, and only encourages sentiment that has a real potential to become harmful to you personally.

That is, unless posts like thos are designed to encourage that sentiment, which I sometimes suspect.

lyu07282•35m ago
I think this shifted overtone window has partially to do with why they started this war to begin with, they see the writing on the wall and their window of opportunity is closing. Trump is at historic lows in polling [1]; 65% of democrats now sympathize more with Palestinians over Israelis (17%) [2]. HN is just a generally reactionary place, I wouldn't read to much into that.

[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/702440/israelis-no-longer-ahead...

LAC-Tech•22m ago
The more telling figure is that 50% of *republicans* under 50 do not support Israel. Even Charlie Kirk was posting about how awful an idea an Iran war was before he was killed in mysterious circumstances.

The Epstein files with their derogatory and supremacist remarks made about "goyim" have not helped. Neither has the PR dwmage control to either ignore that or claim he was working for Russia or Qatar.

The times they are a changin'.

throw-the-towel•1h ago
> They assume that because their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah) hide in civilian structures, so does the US army?

> Two US Defense Department employees were wounded when an Iranian drone struck a hotel in Bahrain's capital Manama, The Washington Post reported Monday.

lyu07282•48m ago
> All these attempts to justify Iranian terror

At the end of the day you have to understand the reality that Iran is a sovereign nation that is going to defend itself. And yes they are hitting residential buildings and hotels with US military personnel present. None of this is terrorism, this is a nation state retaliating after an attack on their nation, you have to understand this basic concept, actions have consequences.

This is not propaganda, you are just willfully ignorant. If you want to destroy Iran you have to take retaliation into account, everything else is just propaganda, what do you expect them to do instead? Just lie down and take it?

You can't use retaliation of the nation you attacked as justification of why the attack was justified, its circular logic, this is textbook propaganda you are repeating.

bayindirh•28m ago
I believe they have warned that any country offering support will be targeted, even before the attacks began.

So they are cowards if they do what they say, and they are cowards if they don't do anything.

What should they do? Evacuate the country and offer the land for free?

keybored•1h ago
America is so unused to being attacked (counter-attacked) that this needs to be explained apparently.
avereveard•1h ago
they have been engaging in hybrid warfare for decade+ they don't get to play victim this is the result of their continued proxy attacks
bayindirh•1h ago
> I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.

Consider this from the eyes of the people living there. Your world is peaceful one day and burning tomorrow. It doesn't have to be "burning like hell", but something came from the sky, entered your building, exploded and damaged some stuff to the extent that fire-supression triggered and damaged more things.

Even if it's not a trauma, it's a shock. Something you'll be remembering for a long time. We live in fragile bubbles, but don't know it until we experience it pop. While this might not make them "win" the war, it'll leave a mark and make the affected persons' ears perch up to understand what's happening better.

Please note, I'm not from either side. I'm a close observer because of where I live, and still believe that this should have not happened.

seydor•1h ago
Especially when 90% of the population are immigrants having no emotional ties to the ground
bayindirh•1h ago
Yeah, it'll definitely trigger "why am I here and putting up with this" response in some people, and that's a breaking point for many of them.
eb0la•45m ago
Not just Amazon - I guess the Oil and gas industry is now run on the cloud. They used to have big SGI machines 30 years ago... but I bet everything is on the cloud now using GPUs.
bayindirh•32m ago
I tend to believe that they still have their own clusters. For speed and privacy reasons. You don't want to give away the location of the oil you have found.
globalnode•1h ago
us govt and big business have always worked hand in hand, they compliment each other.
tsimionescu•1h ago
They complement each other too, which is more impactul than any compliments they might send.
butler14•1h ago
Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?
LAC-Tech•1h ago
Why would they funnel all their traffic to a middle eastern AZ?
DavidSJ•1h ago
Capacity is tight, you serve from where you can.
aurareturn•1h ago
Probably also because most token use cases are not latency sensitive. A 200ms extra delay isn't going to change much for most use cases.
anamexis•1h ago
Right, so if they were able to get a discount in UAE…
joe_mamba•1h ago
> U.S. Military Using Anthropic for Middle East Airstrikes[1]

> Strikes hit AWS datacenter

> Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol

[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...

tamirzb•57m ago
This comment makes it seem as if it's the US who striked the Amazon data center.
temp0826•50m ago
The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility?

[0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...

joe_mamba•34m ago
US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.
BlobberSnobber•24m ago
It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.
wongarsu•40m ago
I find it more likely that Anthropic has rented space in other data centers in the region that were also impacted by Iranian retaliation
lyu07282•8m ago
Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...
RamblingCTO•1h ago
I've been working on that for a client since yesterday (as a fractional CTO). Pretty hectic, basically nothing really works and we don't know yet if all data is lost or if anything is recoverable or when AWS UAE will become functional again so we can recover that region.

Finally, I have a very good argument for multi-region deployments ;))

that's my go to website atm: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

chinathrow•1h ago
Any backups?
TacticalCoder•51m ago
> Any backups?

Yup something has to be said too about good old offline backups on fat tapes.

crossroadsguy•1h ago
Severity: Disrupted

So if data won't be recoverable you all will mark it something like "Status: FUBAR" or some equivalent term?

lazide•46m ago
I wonder if ‘Apocalypse’ or ‘Molten Slag’ would be considered professional enough.
bayindirh•45m ago
I'd accept "X_X" as status.
BonoboIO•42m ago
FUBAR, I would vote for that
Hamuko•1h ago
We didn't do multi-region deployments, but we did store database backups in a separate region just in case something really bad happened and our AWS region became unavailable. Also had a plan/some ready Terraform stuff in order to start setting up a deployment if it became apparent that the region wasn't coming back anytime soon.

IMO, if you're using AWS and not replicating your data somewhere else, this should be an eye-opener for you.

richsouth•36m ago
What do you mean 'finally' - surely 'redundancy' or 'natural disaster' is reason enough.
r721•57m ago
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781
jleyank•41m ago
Hmmm. We’ve seen the fun that comes from cutting data cables and pipelines. Think that’s been factored in with the asymmetric warfare coming from the Middle East? Perhaps some network assaults as well?

Krugman has pointed out that modern war is bloody expensive. Perhaps resistance will just be helping burn money? Lots of motivated people on one side. And I hope countries are being careful, as a Thirty Years War in the Middle East would suck.

xer•32m ago
Lesson learned: If your recovery plan requires calling any API in the dead region — to detach an IP, describe a route table, launch an instance, read an S3 object, or decrypt a volume — it will fail when you need it most.

Every dependency on the primary region is a dependency on the thing that just broke.

tonyedgecombe•11m ago
[delayed]